Iosif is a variant of the Biblical name Joseph found among the Romanians, Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Georgians, Armenians.
Notable people with the name include:
- Iosif Amusin, Soviet historian
- Iosif Anisim, Romanian sprint canoer
- Iosif Ardeleanu, Romanian communist activist and bureaucrat
- Iosif Blaga, Romanian literary theorist and politician
- Iosif Bobulescu, Romanian bishop
- Iosif CapotÃÂ, Romanian anti-communist resistance fighter
- Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, aka Joseph Stalin (1878âÂÂ1953), Soviet dictator of the USSR
- Iosif Iacobici, Romanian general
- Iosif Iser, Romanian painter and graphic artist
- Iosif Mendelssohn, Romanian chess master
- Iosif Pogrebyssky, Ukrainian chess master
- Iosif Rotariu, Romanian footballer
- Iosif Shklovsky, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist
- Iosif Szakács (1934âÂÂ2026), Romanian footballer
- Iosif Vigu, Romanian footballer and manager
- Iosif Vitebskiy, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic medalist and world champion fencer and fencing coach
- Iosif Vulcan, Austro-Hungarian Romanian magazine editor and cultural figure
- Dan Iosif, Romanian politician
- ÃÂtefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet
See also